brkn

Yet another broken link checker.

Install

$ npm install --save brkn

Usage

const brkn = require('brkn');
 
// execute the function
brkn(['https://your.website.here/somepage.html'], ['href'], 'https://your.website.here', {verbose: false});
 
// then listen for the 'end' event
brkn.events.on('end', function(brokenUrls) {
  console.log('Broken URLs:', brokenUrls);
  //=> 'Broken URLs: [...]'
});

API

brkn(sources, attributes, baseUrl, [opts])

Emits an end event (type: Array) with the inaccessible URLs found in sources.

Will emit error event (type: String) on URL/File parsing errors.

sources

Type: Array

An array with the target web page(s) or file(s).

attributes

Type: Array

An array with the HTML attributes that brkn should scan.

base

Type: String

The hostname (with protocol) to which the relative URLs will resolve to.

options

verbose

Type: Boolean

If true, brkn will emit two additional events:

• item
  • emitted: after each scanned URL
  • type: Object
  • params:
    • broken: Boolean
    • source: String
    • statusCode: Integer
    • url: String
• source
  • emitted: after each completed source, when there are more than one
  • type: Object
  • params:
    • source: String
    • brokenUrls: Array

Related

• brkn-cli - CLI for this module

License

MIT © Gabriel Mangiurea